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15 February, 2010 By Geoffrey MacnabSource: Screen Daily ContentFilm has picked up international rights to Endgame Entertainment’s feature documentary Every Little Step, the critically acclaimed look behind the scenes at the Broadway smash A Chorus Line. It was released in the US by Sony Pictures Classics and through Shochiku in Japan, and has grossed $3m […]

16 May, 2010 By Diana LodderhoseSource: Variety Ethan Hawke has signed on to CIA thriller “The Numbers Station,” directed by Kasper Barfoed (“The Candidate”). Content Film Intl. has acquired worldwide rights to the pic, which is produced by “The Cooler’s” Sean and Bryan Furst through their shingle Furst Films. Hawke will also produce via his […]

10 September, 2010 By Wendy MitchellSource: ScreenDaily Malin Akerman has joined the cast of The Numbers Station, opposite Ethan Hawke. The action thriller stars Hawke as a disgraced black ops agent protecting Katherine (Akerman) who is a code operator at a CIA broadcast station in the Nevada desert. Akerman’s recent films include The Romantics and […]

14 March, 2010 By Jeremy KaySource: Screen Daily Apparition and Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions Group (SPWAG) have taken domestic rights to Sundance premiere Welcome To The Rileys starring Kristen Stewart, James Gandolfini and Melissa Leo. The distributors did the seven-figure deal with UTA Independent Group and plan to release later this year. Gandolfini plays a […]

14 February, 2010 By Geoffrey MacnabSource: Screen Daily ContentFilm International has taken worldwide rights to The Uncatchable Cowgirl Bandits Of Nottingham, Texas from director Jess Manafort and writer Michael Tabb. The film stars Leighton Meester (pictured) and Amber Heard with more cast to be announced shortly. It is billed as a sassy, wild drama, full […]

2 February, 2010 Source: Screen Daily James Cameron’s Avatar and Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker score nine nominations each.There were few surprises in the nominations announcement for the 82nd Academy Awards on February 2, with Avatar and The Hurt Locker taking nine nominations apiece.Jeremy Renner’s best actor nomination for The Hurt Locker was perhaps the […]

Venice Film Festival announces its line-up 26 July, 2007 The Venice Film Festival has announced its line-up. Films from Woody Allen, Ken Loach, Paul Haggis, Todd Haynes, Ang Lee, Wes Anderson, Miike Takashi, Brian De Palma, Andrew Dominik, Peter Greenaway, Kitano Takeshi, Eric Rohmer and Kenneth Branagh among others will play the festival which runs […]

4 February, 2010 By Sam WollastonSource: The Guardian You know those TV shows about people who move to another country? There have been a few; I forget the names. Brits Abroad? Nightmare in Paradise? The ones where they go to France or wherever, fall in love with a beautiful little white house with blue shutters, […]

21 February, 2010 Source: Screen Kathryn Bigelow has become the first woman to win the best director prize at the Orange British Film Academy Awards, held in London this evening (February 21). The award was one of six for Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker, which also took best film as well as prizes for sound, editing, […]